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Our taxes in the United States are lower than any industrialized nation in the world, except Japan.
Our taxes in the U.S. are lower than at any time since 1950.
Even if you are a member of Congress, it is difficult to get an honest budget report on how much we are spending on our various military activities. The Pentagon is unable to tell the truth. And the Congress and the President go along with the game of lying to the American people. If you want to dumbfound your U.S. Senator or Congressperson, come armed with accurate budget facts and try to have a discussion. They will run for cover. Your members in the two houses of Congress do not know this stuff. It is a disgrace. What makes it a bigger disgrace is that they know they are lied to. What makes it an even greater disgrace is that some of them seem eager to give the miitary whatever it wants [when I use the term "military" or "Pentagon" I mean all the various private and public facets that go into making up what we call the "military-industrial complex."].
While most pie charts will show the current military expenditure is larger than any other part of the federal budget. It may be listed as 32% or 35% of the total picture. That is a bold-faced lie.
Oh, how some politicians love to hide behind the Bible, or present themselves as pure, put forth the face of an honest man or woman, a Chrisitan of the first order. Do you actually know anyone like that in politics? Conservatives and Republicans tend to lean on that false front more than anyone.
In Wisconsin, where we are about to have recall elections for a number of state legislators, the Republicans are actually running candidates on the Democrat ticket. Yep, died in the wool Republicans running as Democrats just to screw up the democratic election process. And they are not only doing it with a straight face, they are doing it in the construct of honesty! How low can you go? In other words, use any method you can as a Republican to stop a Democrat from being legitimately elected, even if it means lying and misrepresenting yourself. This is ethics and morals turned on their head, to say nothing of conducting a scam and a sham in an election process. Is shame vacant from the Republican mind? What next, using black shoe polish on one's skin to run as an African-American? Cross-dressing to run as a woman? Lying about one's military record [oops, that's already been done].
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Well, if what is happening in Britain regarding Rupert Murdoch and the FOX empire hasn't turned your stomach, you will believe and follow anything. It was not enough for Rupert Murdoch to have FOX News distort so-called "news" and skew it toward the right wing, not enough to feature the absolutely distasteful and crude Glenn Beck, not enough to have its so-called objective commentators on FOX look like a list of Republican presidential hopefuls, not enough for Murdoch in the U.S. to mix tabloid periodicals with TV news reporting, not enough to have FOX News be a shill for big corporations and right-wing politics, Murdoch has sunk to even lower depths in Britain.
Being exposed now in Britain are Murdoch's tabloids and his news periodicals hacking innocent people's phones, even during their times of sorrow and distress. Being exposed now are secret deals between Murdoch's print and broadcast empire and the police; pay-offs included. This was revealed in the past, but Murdoch and his representatives always denied it. Now they have enough goods on him to prove it and make it stick. And it goes to the highest level of elective office, even a Labour Party prime minister.
Well, it looks as though Rupert Murdoch's assault on journalism is taking a big hit. One of his major periodicals is closing in Britain. Major advertisers are pulling their ads. In Britain, from top of the political-judicial scale to the bottom, the Murdoch "news" empire is finally getting what it deserves: justice. Thank goodness for The Guardian, and the way they went after Murdoch, and continued their pursuit while he was denying everything for years. Now let us hope we can drop-kick FOX News to oblivion in the U.S.
Recall elections upon us. For goodness sake, get rid of Alberta Darling, and vote for Sandy Pasch.
Rupert Murdoch is rushing to Britain to try and save his crumbling print and broadcast empire, and to save his son Jimmy from going to prison. Can he save it? Absolutely!
There are enough big corporations who need his cover and his phony news stories to promote their greed. Right-wing politicians in the U.S. absolutely depend on FOX News and the Murdoch disceptions to build their careers. There has been a huge shift in America and the world toward big money.
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The fourth of July is a unique holiday. People celebrate the fourth by thinking that they are celebrating our independence from Great Britain that was declared in 1776. But what are many people actually doing? It is the day when left-wing extremists will leave the Prius in the garage, and load up the minivan or the SUV with a charcoal grill and drive down to a crowded beach or park and fire up the barbie by dumping about a half can of lighter fuel on it and cook up a bunch of brats and hot dogs.
The pinnacle of entertainment comes after dusk when municipalities with an alliance with capitalist corporations will ignite a pyrotechnics show. Anywhere from 30 to 60 minutes of constant loud noises and flashes of light will lead to the delight of just about all the spectators. Ooh's and aah's will be abound. Not being brought to the forefront of anyone's mind is the amount of pollution being pumped into the air. For on this day, greenhouse gases will be forgotten as a salute to the red white and blue.
Rupert Murdoch, one of the world's leading news emperors, is in deep trouble. Long ago, the highly respected periodical, The Guardian, revealed horrible actions taken by the Murdoch news organizations. Among the charges were hacking the phones of celebrities, royals, and even people going through the tragedy of death in their immediate family. In fact, Murdoch employees hacked into the cell phone apps of a woman who was missing, and they intercepted messages from the family which had loved ones thinking she was still alive. Of course she was dead.
Editors and other employees of Murdoch were arrested. The Guardian kept up its expose. Now Murdoch and his huge news empire is in deep trouble. Thank goodness The Guardian did not let up. Now the British public is insisting on a thorough investigation. Heads will roll. Murdoch's "News of the World," a 168-year-old newspaper, drenched in scandal and factual charges, ceased publishing. Murdoch's own son, Jimmy, is implicated in some of this mess. It is not isolated, and it now shows that this sort of illegal and unprofessional behavior is standard practice in the Murdoch news empire. It was even encouraged!
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After 2 1/2 years of the Obama administration, one thing we can say for certainty-the president and his team know absolutely nothing about economics.
I don't think the president has had any training in economics. No matter how many people out how smart he is, he shows complete ignorance in this one area. In all his years at the universities, he probably has not taken one economics course. Political science doesn't require any economic training, which also helps explain why all the lawyers in Congress also have no ideas that lead to solutions on how to get the American economy rolling again.
When I began this blog I welcomed with open arms all comments, agreeing or disagreeing with me. Slowly the comments began to sink into a dark place, a place where strange, viscious, and bigoted people reside. Comments were no longer about the blog, they were about attacking me and other people who comment. These sinister, sleazy, bigoted people did not address the blog theme, they attacked other people.
Barbara become "Barbie." Insinuations were made about black people, Latinos, gays, liberals, immigrants, educators, ad infinitum. It became sickening in the extreme.
The debt ceiling was raised 7 times under President George W. Bush.
Only Republicans have ultimatrums before they will raise the debt ceiling
Pulling back the curtain, exposing the list of right-wingers for who they really are, and putting them in some sort of historical perspective, I offer the following small sampling. When you think right-wingers, you cannot forget or deny these folks:
Donald Trump.....Imelda Marcos.....Leona Helmsley.....Pat Robertson.....The John Birch Society...Henry Ford and his support of Hitler.....Father Coughlin [look up this scum-bucket].....House Un-American Activities Committee.....Charles Lindbergh supports Nazism and Hitler.....Krupp.....Messerschmidt.....I.G. Farben.....U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy.....Richard M. Nixon.....Halliburton CEO Dick Cheney.....Adolf Hitler.....Benito Mussolini.....William Randolph Hearst.....Somoza, Batista, Peron, Pinochet, Franco and their ilk.....Rupert Murdoch.....FOX broadcasting.....Sarah Palin.....Michele Bachman.....du Pont leaders support Nazism.....The Bradley Foundation.....CATO.....American Free Enterprise Institute.....The Bush family's support of right-wing causes from smuggling oil into Nazi Germany and the cozy relationships with the oppressive Saudi family.....Rush Limbaugh.....Bill O'Reilly.....Glenn Beck.....Tea Party.....Donald Rumsfeld.....huge military-industrial corporations that profit from war.....the fake Democrats that were posted by the Republicans in the recent recall elections in Wisconsin.....Warren Harding.....Herbert Hoover.....Ronald Reagan.....and the list goes on.
Hot Weather Causes Global Warming
Does hot weather cause global warming or is it the other way around? Is it a timely discussion or just a lot of hot air? Perhaps I can summarize an article I had read recently in the left-wing publication,"Liberal Lies And How to Tell Them." Then it will all make sense.
Earlier this spring, we had very cool and wet weather. Was this caused by global warming? Of course it was. But here's the difference how liberals explain it-but cool weather is just that -- weather. And whether is not climate. Therefore we can still have global warming and a cool spring. The frame is definitely caused by global warming. A lot of rain is extreme weather. Liberals like that word "extreme"and use it in a lot of conversations. Conservatives are extreme, politicians are extreme, people who think they pay too much in taxes are extreme, people who don't like dependency on government are extreme... the list goes on. And now that you're distracted, let's throw the point back at you. Extreme weather is caused by global warming. Or climate change, or climate change caused by man, whatever they're calling it this year.
Through the years I have noticed the right-wing out-perform progressives in distorting the truth. I clearly remember the right-wing leading legislation to pass on concealed weapons, and the next year pointing out how crime had fallen in those states that had conceled weapons approval. What they failed to point out is that states that had no such legislation saw crime rates drop more substantially.
The same was true when big corporate and right-wing support pushed for keeping prisoners locked up for longer periods of time. Forced with over-crowding, states had to turn to private prison corporations to house their longer-serving prisoners. Then the right-wing showed us how crime had gone down in those states. Once again, what they didn't tell you was that in many states without longer prison sentences, crime went down in larger numbers. But the private Corrections Corporation of America made a financial killing.
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A couple of years ago, the president of the United States told us deficits don't matter. That was also to infer that the national debt does not matter. Today, and for the past couple of weeks, it seems like the national debt is all that matters.
How did we get to this situation? Many presidents have worked with budgets that have had deficits. A few have had surpluses, but many more have had deficits. Some have had huge deficits. The size of these huge deficits is no relative. Recent presidents have had budgets that have created deficits annually into the hundreds of billions of dollars. That seems like a lot of money. But the current administration has had deficits of 1 1/2 trillion dollars annually for the past three years. That seems like a lot of money.
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Coming out of a Republican Party caucus, a freshman Congressmen had many comments to offer. He is a loyal Tea Party supporter. His swaggering comments about being taken lightly because he was new to Congress, he assured us that he would not be tossed aside by old leadership in the GOP.
He refused to support the Speaker of the House and his budget proposal because of "all that money" that was there for Pell Grants." Why should taxpayers support these college kids, he offered. He never got a dime and never went to college. Well, that was obvious.


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Cushing syndrome due to adrenal tumor is an endocrine system disorder. It occurs when a tumor of the adrenal gland
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Adrenal tumors may be noncancerous (benign) or cancerous (malignant).
Noncancerous tumors that may cause Cushing syndrome include:
Cancerous tumors that may cause Cushing syndrome include:
Adrenal tumors are rare. In children with high cortisol levels, adrenal tumors are more common than pituitary tumors or ectopic ACTH secretion
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Cushing syndrome due to an adrenal tumor is treated with surgery to remove the tumor and often the entire adrenal gland.
Glucocorticoid replacement treatment is usually needed until the other adrenal gland recovers from surgery. You may need this treatment for 9 - 12 months.
If surgery is not possible (such as in cases of adrenal cancer), medicines can be used to stop the release of cortisol. These include:
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Patients with an adrenal tumor who have surgery have an excellent outlook. Surgery success rates are very high with this type of tumor.
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Cancerous adrenal tumors can spread to the liver or lungs.
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Appropriate treatment of adrenal tumors may reduce the risk of complications in some patients with tumor-related Cushing syndrome.
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1) I have a gas water heater, why is there a ground wire between the cold and hot copper pipes about 12" above the water heater? Isn't the heater it self metal? And it is sitting on the ground already so what is the reason for the short ground wire between the pipes for grounding?
2) If I do replace the kitchen cold and hot pipes with PEX tubing and connect them to the top of the current water heater what else needs to be done to meet code? I assume now the kitchen faucets are no longer grounded. If this will cause me more problem than I will run it with copper pipe instead of PEX.
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Canada by Train – The Great AdventureThursday, June 11th, 2009
Barry Lane is a Canadian historian with special interests in British colonial and maritime history. Below, he talks about the excitement of traveling on the Rocky Mountaineer on the final leg of our Canadian Rail Adventure. Click here to learn more about Barry and traveling through Canada with him.
The climax of the rail trip for the passengers is always the last two days, as we cross through the mountain ranges and interior plateaus of British Columbia. The double-decker dome rail cars give us an incredible viewpoint for the endlessly changing scenery, and the space to relax and walk around so that we can share this experience with our new-found friends. It is here that we pass through the famous Spiral Tunnels in the Kicking Horse Pass, constructed to offset some of the highest railway grades in world history.
Trains passing through the tunnels turn twice in quick succession through 360 degrees and lose over 100 feet in total elevation. In some cases, as they exit one of the tunnels, the crews of longer trains can actually see the rear of their train still entering the opening of the tunnel above. Directly above us as we enter the tunnels are towering Mount Stephen and Cathedral Mountain, covered with snow and glacier ice. Far below through the forests, down to the valley floor, one can see the white foam of the Kicking Horse River and the Trans Canada Highway which follows along it.
This is one of the finest views in the Rockies, and each time we go through I cannot help but be awed by the dramatic beauty of the area and the accomplishments of the men who first built the railway through Canada's deep wilderness. Their contribution lives on in an extraordinary rail journey that reflects Canada's true spirit.
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Amber Brown is excited about her mom and Max's upcoming wedding. Not only does Amber get to be the Best Child but all her best friends are invited, including Justin, whose family will be making a special trip back to town just for the big event! But when every conversation about the wedding causes a fight about money, they talk about a having a tiny wedding without any family or friends. On top of that she's on the hunt for the perfect dress and writing her Best Child speech.
Paula Danziger called Bruce Coville and Elizabeth Levy her best friend and her other best friend, and this close connection enabled them to lovingly capture Amber Brown's voice, sense of humor, big-heartedness, and her fondness for puns.
Amber Brown isn't looking for just any dress. It has to be THE dress.
"How about this one?" Aunt Pam says. "It's not pink."
"No, it's outer-space green," I say.
The dress is iridescent, which means shiny. And yes, I like shiny, but this one looks like an alien ate something that didn't agree with it.
I give Aunt Pam my "I can't believe you expect me to wear this dress" face. It's a face I've been making all day. Aunt Pam is getting exasperated. Mom is getting exasperated. The sales woman is getting exasperated……and we've been to six stores before we even got to her.
I, Amber Brown, am exasperated too. I am also disgruntled, peeved, and put out. I have nothing to wear. I don't mean that I'm naked. But now that we are having the wedding, I must, must, MUST have THE dress!
It's not going to be alien green.
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Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Object Permanence
After Henry's diagnosis, I had an unshakable feeling that I had been duped. His cancer had been there growing, for some time, and I hadn't known. Of course, no one knew. But I had (have?) a sense that someone knew...the universe perhaps?...while I did not. I have never struggled with the 'why' of his cancer (though that may be yet to come.) To me, his cancer just is, the way an earthquake just is.
Then, the universe turned into a pair of pants. I was at Old Navy, months before his diagnosis. I picked up a pair of powder blue sweats. Ugly, but a bargain. I thought, "Maybe he'll get just a few wears out of these, besides, what a bargain!"
He wore them a lot during his first round of chemo. They were soft, easy to get on and off, and comfy in bed. Still ugly, but who cared.
But I felt like they knew. Like at some strange quantum physics level, those pants already knew all the times he was going to wear them. I could remember picking them up from the bargain bin at Old Navy, fingering them, trying to decide whether to buy them or not. I could only imagine my horror if on that day I could see how they would be used. I didn't know. Did they?
This happened many more times. This new pair of shoes. I put them on for the first time the morning we took him to the hospital for dizziness. Neither I nor they came home for a week. Did they know, back when I ordered them off the internet with my free shipping coupon, that they would be sitting in the PICU while I sobbed? While I was told that there was a great probability that my child would die within a few years? While I held an emesis basin for him to vomit in over and over and over?
It's quieted down now, my conversation with the universe. But every so often, it pipes up again. These new shoes that I buy...will I be wearing them the day that the oncologist tells us his cancer is back? This watch, that I have worn every day since my husband gave it to me when I graduated from medical school, does it know what will happen? Will this sweater that I am knitting him come back to me tattered and torn from his playing in the woods in a year, just as he outgrows it, cancer-free?
If they know, they can't tell me.
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- Rob said...
Well done, Tara.
The emotional confusion we have in situations like this wants somewhere to land. We feel up in the air and don't quite know what is real and what matters. You are looking for an objective view on things, and what better thing to be objective than an object. It is safe, because there is no causality in the hands (or pockets, as it were) of the pants. You don't get angry at them, you just view them as your objective onlooker.
Some may simply respond that God is the objective onlooker, but that is not quite so simple (I say that as one who believes in God). Belief in God creates problems here because it means that knowledge was there when the power to stop it was there too. This is a big problem that takes a lot of explaining. This gives theologians a paycheck.
Still, we can all identify with the feeling that you express as you search for that objectivity.
Sometimes I think the weirder thoughts are actually the most profound.
I really liked this post.
- April 9, 2008 at 8:08 PM
Tara, you are an amazing writer. Your images ricochet in my mind and sometimes leave me breathless.
Thank you for letting the rest of us in on your struggle. You have to know you aren't alone and are loved.
Miss Susan
- April 10, 2008 at 8:39 AM
- JeanMac said...
After I wiped away a tear or two, I saw him running toward you from the woods, cancer free, muddied face and boots, sweater torn.
We bloggers will hold that image for you to make it happen. Love sent your way, as usual.
- April 10, 2008 at 1:18 PM
Dr. Smak--
I am touched deeply by this post.
I don't know you, and you don't know me...but I am a surgeon and mother of a (relatively) mildly medically fragile 4 yr old daughter. So many of your posts touch me to the core...you appear so HUMAN, like I would love to get to know you in real life. Thank you for your honesty.
- April 10, 2008 at 4:26 PM
I wonder if we all don't have those thoughts. I know I do, but most of us aren't brave enough to acknowledge them.
- April 11, 2008 at 9:56 AM
Dr. Smak,
You are truly an inspiration. Thanks for sharing with me.
- April 13, 2008 at 11:16 AM
- Doctor David said...
Tara, that was beautiful. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and fears with us.
- April 13, 2008 at 10:29 PM
Your post has settled in my mind for days, very moving. I remember sort of a similiar thing for me too--back in 1994 I was in Santa Fe New Mexico and bought a pair of tiny infant slippers with cowboys on them--I was very much wanting to have a child and I imagined my baby wearing those slippers. Later in 1997 when I had my first son, he wore those slippers but only for about a week because he was a big baby! The onesie with the balloons on it became the meaningful article of clothing for me--he was wearing it the first day that I felt really bonded to him--
thanks for helping me remember that special time.
My prayers are with you and your family.
- April 16, 2008 at 7:06 PM
- Jennifer said...
Not strange at all. I felt this same way after my son was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. Charamander was his favorite Pokemon and I had just found the most wonderful Charamander bed friend..and at a great deal. I was thrilled with the find. Only days later Char went to the hospital with us and was my son's constant friend for over 7 years. We learned to give shots by practicing on Char. He was hugged when we had to give finger prick after finger prick.
We never went anywhere without Char and I had to do some fancy needlework on him from time to time to keep him together from all of the love. I just always felt that somehow it was meant that I find that bed friend just when I did. It knew all along and somehow made sure I'd see him in the store that day. I am so thankful for the comfort it has supplied, all the tears it's sopped up.
Sometimes even now, when things seem too calm, I wonder what else may know what's coming, if I can somehow tap into the "knowing" and prepare. No, not strange at all.
- April 17, 2008 at 10:22 AM
- Femail doc said...
Spectacular post.
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Meet Alicia Claus, daughter of Santa Claus and a girl who is ready to kick your ass and use impressive witchcraft. Okay, so she's not the daughter of Santa, but she is ready to kick your ass and use all kinds of weird magic. Alicia is a tortured soul full of mysteries and angst, but best of all she carries around a giant gun shaped like a broom that is really good at killing anything that moves, no matter if it's human or not. It's six years in the future and humanity is on the verge of extinction due to natural disasters, starvation, wars, epidemics and a sudden appearance of an army of evil, twisted monsters. Apparently Ms. Claus and her witch craft is the only person that can save the day. Actually, forget about the set up, did I mention that she's packing a giant gun shaped like a broom?
Needless to say Bullet Witch is not the type of game you can take very seriously. After all, this is a game where you play a busty babe in high heel boots who runs around killing evil demons with her magic abilities and giant gun. But who needs realism, every so often you just need to turn your brain off and enjoy a game that makes almost no sense and is nothing more than an excuse to kill thousands of bizarre creatures. Unfortunately Bullet Witch isn't as cool as its campy story and presentation; instead we get a short, mindless romp through one boring level after another. With its attractive lead character and silly set up I wanted to love this game, but in the end I was left disappointed in almost every way.
Bullet Witch starts when Alicia comes to town ready to right some wrongs, and from the very start she's greeted by a welcoming committee full of Geist Soldiers, a group of creepy half-dead beings that look like they've been decomposing in the ground for a few weeks (for what it's worth the instruction manual suggests that they like dirty jokes, so maybe they aren't all bad). You begin your quest in the suburbs and then make your way to a post-apocalyptic cityscape. Unfortunately these two levels prove to be the most interesting areas, other locations involve you running through a forest during the day, a forest during the night, an army base and an underground sewer. It's not that these levels don't make sense in the context of the story, but none of the levels feel very inspired.
Bullet Witch a pure action game, so don't go into this game expecting some sort of deep role-playing or strategy elements. Instead we get an almost limitless amount of bad guys to shoot, which is pretty fun for the first couple levels. You basically run around these linear environments looking for enemies to shoot and then you shoot them. From time to time you will need to open colored gates, in order to do this you have to track down a large brain-like creature hovering in the air. At first these large brains seem peaceful, but soon you'll realize that they have the ability to make other objects hover (cars, trucks, etc.) and throw them at you killing you in one hit. Oddly enough these floating brains that never move prove to be the hardest enemies in the game.
But maybe it's not that these brain enemies were hard so much as it was the other enemies are too easy. I'm not a stickler for great artificial intelligence or anything, but the enemies in Bullet Witch don't even try. There are times in this game when you can literally run circles around a baddie and he won't notice (or shoot at you). When and why enemies will attack you seem almost random, there are certainly times when a big group of foes will be lining up to kill me, yet there will be one or two in the mix that could care less about me. Even when I shoot them they decided not to fire back. I guess those were the peace-loving Geist Soldiers. The biggest complaint I have against these enemies isn't what they look like or how they act, but rather how many times I have to fight them. Bullet Witch only offers a few types of enemies, and 90% of them end up being these Geist Soldiers. They don't even look different as you go along; you just fight the same one over and over.
If you think the enemy AI is bad then you obviously haven't met the group of Army soldiers that you team up with early in the game. Although it's painfully clear that Alicia can do just about everything on her own, for some strange reason the developers of Bullet Witch seem to think it's a good idea to throw in a few completely unnecessary characters that tag along for no good reason. The problem with these characters is that they seem to have a death wish; they run into hordes of enemies without using any tactical strategy what so ever and die almost immediately. Worse yet, they have a tendency to get in your way when you're trying to kill the on-coming Geist Soldiers. I'm not sure how it's done in army training, but I know for a fact that it's a bad idea to walk in front of somebody when they are shooting their gun. No wonder the world is in such disarray.
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The group came together to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. and reflect on the service opportunities in the Boonsboro school district.
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Annual to tree
Leaves generally compound, alternate, stipuled; leaflets generally entire
Inflorescence: generally raceme, spike, umbel or head; flowers sometime 12 in axils
Flowers generally bisexual, generally bilateral; hypanthium generally flat or cup-like; sepals generally 5, fused; petals generally 5, free, or the 2 lower ± fused; stamens 1many, often 10 with 9 filaments at least partly fused, 1 (uppermost) free; pistil 1, ovary superior, generally 1-chambered, ovules 1many, style, stigma 1
Fruit: legume, sometimes including a stalk-like base above receptacle, dehiscent, or indehiscent and breaking into 1-seeded segments, or indehiscent, 1-seeded, and achene-like
Seeds 1several, often ± reniform, generally hard, smooth
Genera in family: ± 650 genera, 18,000 species: worldwide; with grasses, requisite in agriculture and most natural ecosystems. Many cultivated, most importantly Arachis , peanut; Glycine , soybean; Phaseolus , beans; Medicago ; Trifolium ; and many orns
Reference: [Polhill & Raven (eds) 1981 Advances in legume systematics; Allen & Allen 1981 Leguminosae]
Family description and key to genera by Duane Isely.
Annual, perennial herb, shrub, unarmed
Leaves generally odd-1-pinnate (sometimes ± palmately compound, rarely some or most simple); stipules conspicuous or not; leaflets 3many, often irregularly arranged
Inflorescence: umbel or 12-flowered, axillary, generally peduncled, often bracted
Flower: corolla generally yellow (sometimes white or pink), fading darker; 9 filaments fused, 1 free
Fruit dehiscent or not, exserted from calyx or not, ovoid to oblong, ± beaked
Seeds 1several
Etymology: (Greek: derivation unclear)
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Spp. generally variable; intermediates may be hybrids. Key below separates natural groups.
Perennial, glabrous to hairy, often robust
Stem sprawling or erect, < 1.5 m
Leaf: stipules scarious, inconspicuous; leaflets 915, 23 cm, elliptic or obovate, length generally 12.5 X width, lower surface pale
Inflorescence generally 1220-flowered; peduncle bract generally well below umbel
Flower: calyx 58 mm, lobes < tube; corolla 1217 mm, yellow-green, becoming dark-blotched, claws exserted from calyx tube
Fruit dehiscent, 3.57 cm, 35 mm wide, oblong, glabrous
Seeds several
Chromosomes: 2n=14
Ecology: Chaparral, pine or mixed woodlands and margins, roadsides, other disturbed places
Elevation: 3002100 m.
Bioregional distribution: Klamath Ranges, North Coast Ranges, Sierra Nevada, San Francisco Bay Area, South Coast Ranges, South Coast, Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges (Riverside Co.)
Distribution outside California: to Washington
Plant conspicuously hairySee the CNPS Inventory for information about endangerment and rarity.
Flower: ovules 1420
Ecology: Disturbed areas
Elevation: 900 m.
Bioregional distribution: s Peninsular Ranges (Otay Mtn, San Diego Co.).
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A cold Pacific storm out of the Gulf of Alaska brought Southern California rain and snow Thursday, and forecasters said a second weather system would do the same Friday and Saturday.
By sunrise, the brunt of the storm was already east and south of the Greater Los Angeles area, but National Weather Service meteorologists said there would be scattered showers Thursday.
The snow level in the San Gabriels in Los Angeles and Ventura counties was between 5,000 and 5,500 feet Thursday morning and expected to fall as low as 3,500 feet, which could generate flurries across the Interstate 5 corridor without creating significant problems for drivers, according to an NWS advisory.
California Highway Patrol officers were pacing traffic through the Tejon Pass, according to Caltrans.
Between three and six inches of snow was expected to accumulate above 5,000 feet, and between one and three inches between 4,000 and 5,000 feet, forecasters said.
Also expected were winds of between 15 and 25 miles per hour, gusting to 35 mph, according to the NWS, which issued a winter weather advisory effective until 4 p.m. to indicate hazardous travel conditions resulting from snow and blowing snow.
"There will be lingering showers and snow showers around the San Gabriel mountains through early this evening while most areas will begin to dry out tonight into early Friday," according to an NWS advisory.
A second cold front, similar to the one that arrived Wednesday night, is expected to reach San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties late Friday morning or early in the afternoon, then spread southeast into Ventura and L.A.
counties in the evening, lingering into Saturday morning, according to the NWS.
The system's heaviest rain will fall in Los Angeles and Ventura counties.
The snow level will fall to between 4,000 and 5,000 feet Friday night, and there could be a dusting along the Interstate 5 corridor between Gorman and The Grapevine Saturday morning, NWS forecasters said.
The current storm and the one on its way are each expected to generally produce between a quarter-inch and a half-inch of rain in coastal and valley areas and between a half-inch and an inch in the mountains and foothills.
The storm dropped .07 of an inch in Sandberg and Warm Springs, .04 of an inch of rain in La Verne, .01 of an inch in Pasadena, Pomona, Whittier and Whitaker Peak and trace amounts in Burbank, Lancaster and Long Beach on Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service.
The storm limited highs to 43 at Sandberg and Mount Wilson, 54 in Saugus, 57 in Lancaster, Palmdale, Northridge and Van Nuys, 58 in Acton and Burbank, 59 in Chatsworth and Woodland Hills, 60 in Pomona, at Santa Monica Airport, San Gabriel, 61 at UCLA, 62 in downtown Los Angeles, Hawthorne, Los Angeles International Airport, Redondo Beach, the Santa Monica Pier and Torrance and 63 at Long Beach Airport.
Thursday's forecast highs include 41 at Mount Wilson, 53 in Lancaster and Palmdale, 58 in Burbank and Saugus, 59 in Pasadena and San Gabriel, 60 in Woodland Hills, 62 in downtown Los Angeles and Long Beach and 63 at Los Angeles International Airport.


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August 19, 2013
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August 2, 2013
Carly Gerber
Are you stressing out because you don't know how you are going to pay for a college education? Joining the military is one way to help you pay for college and build your resume.
After high school, Richard Coughlin decided to join the U.S. Coast Guard because they would pay for his college education and provide many benefits such as health care. Coughlin was enlisted from September 2006 until September 2012 but he chose to extend his service for two years and thinks of his time in the military as a very positive experience. Coughlin spent most of his service in Hawaii, where he trained and took classes that were transferred to his current university. According to Coughlin, military members who complete their service feel lost and confused because they weren't proactive about their next step; however, the Veterans Affairs office at one university was extremely helpful at transferring college credit hours and guiding Coughlin through the process of attending a university, which is why he chose to attend the school he will one day call his alma mater.
Also, since Coughlin was enlisted with the Coast Guard, he was able to get a job as a dolphin trainer as soon as his service was completed. Normally, a dolphin trainer needs either a bachelor's degree or a certificate but the process was quicker for Coughlin because he had experience from the Coast Guard. The G.I. Bill requires the military to pay for veterans' college tuition, books, and room and board, but Coughlin has money from dolphin training that can be used towards personal expenses.
Though he initially joined the Coast Guard to help pay for college, Coughlin believes that his service has helped him land a job and taught him respect and independence he will carry with him for the rest of his life. Have you considered joining the military before attending college?
Carly Gerber is majoring in journalism at Columbia College Chicago. She loves fashion and hopes to cover the topic for a Chicago-area magazine. In her free time, she focuses on her blog, loves making jewelry and spending time on Pinterest and Pose. She hopes to use this blog to guide and relate to its followers: college students like herself!
October 25, 2013
Suada Kolovic
High school seniors heading to college in the fall, listen up: The average cost at the nation's four-year public universities rose 2.9% this year, the smallest annual increase in more than three decades (yay!) but the slowdown in tuition increases have been offset by reductions in federal grant aid (boo!).
According to a new report from the College Board, public colleges have raised tuition prices so sharply in recent years not to gouge students but to bank on the increased state aid. And although the increase is moderate, "this does not mean that college is suddenly more affordable," says economist Sandy Baum, co-author of Trends in Higher Education reports on tuition and financial aid. "It does seem that the [upward tuition] spiral is moderating. Not turning around, not ending, but moderating." Unfortunately, students continue to suffer from the constant cycle of rising costs and serious college debt. Shrinking state aid for public colleges and universities has translated into the cost of public schools to jump $1,770 in inflation-adjusted dollars. The amount of government aid received last year fell $6,646 for every full-time student at those institutions while just five years ago, each student received $9,111 in today's dollars. (For more on this report, click here.)
If college is in your forecast, what do you make of the report's findings? Let us know in the comments section.
September 9, 2013
Mike Sheffey
Recently, the federal government came out with a proposed plan to encourage academic excellence in college and linking it to federal aid.
Linking financial aid to academic performance? Wasn't this already a thing? I mean, really? I completely understand where they're coming from – I can't slip below a 3.0 or I risk losing scholarships – and would have thought the federal government would be on a similar page. OK, so maybe that's a bit harsh and I'm not saying that the minimum GPA would have to be a 3.0 but having some minimums on grading is something I fully support the federal government doing. I mean, if they view college students as the future, then they are investing in America's future...and they're probably going to want to emerge at the other end having viewed that investment as a smart idea. I know I've seen my fair share of people getting by without incentive to succeed but if your money and future were on the line, you'd see drastically different outcomes. And in the long run, I think we'd appreciate it: Better grades = better GPA = better skills = better jobs. (Or at least in simple terms, that's how it would go.)
There is, however, the other side of the argument: In the same way that I believe high schools are pushed to be teaching to a test and not to the things we really need to learn (let alone the fact that ALL PEOPLE learn differently but standardized testing pushes a one-way system), I believe a federal system for weighing academic merit could descend into standardized tests for college professors. To be able to hold all college students to federal standards, the government would have to, right? THAT I cannot agree with.
The proposed plan also proposes a heavier focus on online classes. You can read my previous post about online textbooks but would a federal push for online classes devalue the classroom? All I know is that I'd need more details before they could sell me on some of this. But allocating more money to those doing well in school and less or none to those who don't take it seriously or do well? I can see that. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying a 2.5 GPA or anything like that, but if you have a 0.5 and you are receiving federal aid, that's a problem.
What do you think about the proposed federal plan?
Mike Sheffey is a junior at Wofford College double majoring in computer science and Spanish. He loves all things music and has recently taken up photography. Mike works for an on-campus sports broadcasting company as well as the music news blog PropertyOfZack.com. He hopes to use this blogging position to inform and assist others who are seeking the right college or those currently enrolled in college by providing advice on college life, both in general and specific to Wofford.
October 31, 2013
Unless you plan on paying for your college education out-of-pocket, completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (more commonly known as the FAFSA) is essential in your quest for financial aid. For the uninitiated, the FAFSA is used by the Department of Education to determine your eligibility for federal student financial aid for college, including the Pell Grant, federal work-student programs and federal student loans. And while most students struggle with the complicated application process, LGBT students potentially face more serious roadblocks: According to U.S. News & World Report, name changes, gender identification and strained family relationships can present unique FAFSA challenges.
In 2012, sexual orientation and gender identity were the number one reason for youth homelessness in the U.S., notes Thomas Krever, chief executive officer of the Hetrick-Martin Institute. Almost 40 percent of homeless youth identified as LGBT and of those teens, 46 percent ran away because their family rejected their sexual orientation or gender identity. What does this have to do with the FAFSA? Students under the age of 24 need tax returns and bank statements from their parents in order to file for financial aid and those without family support are left in limbo. Other LGBT students struggle with the fact that the FAFSA doesn't necessarily reflect their identity. Questions about name and gender can be enough to keep transgender teens from even applying, says Eli Erlick, founder of Trans Student Equality Resources. "One thing about funding, specifically FAFSA, is that transgender students may not be able to change their name due to parents not being supportive or not having the money to do so," says Erlick. "This can lead to transgender students being nervous to apply, or not even applying at all, because they're scared for their own safety, because using these forms with their legal names may out them." (For more on this story, click here.)
What do you think about the challenges LGBT students face when seeking financial aid? Can you think of something the government can do to ease this pressure?
March 13, 2014
While the road to a college degree may include countless detours, it's essential to understand the importance of financial aid and filling out the FAFSA. But don't just take my word for it – President Obama agrees: Last week, the President announced an initiative that would encourage more students to apply for federal student aid.
Under the FAFSA Completion Initiative, the Department of Education will work with states to identify students who have not completed the form and employ new outreach efforts to help more students through the process. The White House said the effort would build on earlier steps by the Obama administration to simplify the form and make it easier for parents and student to use information from their tax returns to complete the paperwork. "We made it simple. It doesn't cost anything. It does not take a long time to fill out. Once you do, you're putting yourself in the running for all kinds of financial support for college," said President Obama.
For those of you that aren't familiar, the FAFSA (which stands for Free Application for Federal Student Aid) acts as a gateway between graduating seniors and almost $150 billion in grants, loans and work-study funds that the federal government has available. Funds do run out, though, so we recommend filling out the FAFSA as early as possible. Have you filled out the FAFSA? Let us know how it went in the comments section. If you haven't done so yet, review our financial aid section for some tips.
November 21, 2013
Four decades after Title IX was enacted, many colleges and universities across the country still struggle with the gender-equity requirements. If you're not familiar with Title IX, allow me to give you a brief synopsis: The law states: "no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance." While Title IX has had obvious positive effects on women's education, we most often associate this law's success within athletics but compliance with Title IX isn't always a clear task. Take for instance what's happening at Colorado State University: The school plans to add scholarships through a new women's soccer team but are doing so at the expense of the women's water polo team. If you're scratching your head in confusion, join the club.
According to reports, the complaint against the university filed in July 2012 alleged that CSU discriminated against female athletes by falling to provide opportunities equal to those afforded to their male counterparts. The university agreed to a turnaround plan that will bring it into compliance by September 2016 but many individuals have pointed out the odd juxtaposition of a women's sport being eliminated to comply with gender-balance guidelines. "It definitely shows that they didn't take our sport as seriously as maybe men's basketball or football, because they definitely wouldn't have eliminated them," said Alexzandrea Daley, a 19-year-old junior and water polo team member at CSU. Officials at the university have sympathized with their outrage but reaffirm that the university could not afford to keep both sports. (For more on this story, click here.)
Sure, repeated failures to comply with Title IX can jeopardize a university's federal financial support but do you agree with Colorado State's solution? Do you think it fair to the female athletes? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section.
January 1, 2014
Alexis Mattera
Though it's a day off from school and work, New Year's Day is also a day to get down to business. While you're starting in on your New Year's resolutions, opening up a new calendar, and packing up the holiday decorations, there's one more thing that college students and college-bound high school students should do each January. The Department of Education starts accepting the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (more commonly known as "FAFSA") on January 1 each year. State application deadlines fall soon after—as early as February in some cases. So while you might not start classes until August or September, you want to start applying for financial aid as soon as the FAFSA is available each year.
In order to complete a FAFSA, you will need the following:
January 21, 2014
Higher education has always been a top priority for President Barack Obama. Back in February 2009, he told Congress, "By 2020, America will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world." Five years later, whether or not we as a nation will achieve that benchmark remains unseen but he believes that reaching out to low-income students may be just the key to getting there.
On Thursday, President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama met with more than 80 college presidents and dozens of nonprofits committed to raising the number of low-income students who attend college. "We want to restore the essential promise of opportunity and upward mobility that's at the heart of America," he told the group. "To that end, young people, low-income students in particular, must have access to a college education." The participating schools have agreed to take action in one of four areas: connecting young people to schools that are right for them; early intervention to ensure a larger pool of students prepare for college; more college advising and test preparation; and more on-campus remedial education. And while President Obama's various education initiatives are ambitious, it doesn't appear to be lost on him that there is much more work to be done to get college degrees in the hands of more American students, regardless of their economic class. (For more on this story, click here.)
What do you think of the President's education push? Let us know in the comments section.
January 28, 2014
For those of you that don't closely follow politics, tonight President Barack Obama will deliver his fifth State of the Union address. If you aren't familiar, the address not only reports on the condition of the nation but also allows the President to outline his legislative agenda and national priorities. And with potentially millions of young Americans watching, we wondered what issues mattered most to Millennials? Fortunately, Generation Progress asked them just that! Check out some of the top responses below: (For the full list, head over to Generation Progress.)
What do you think of the top issues that Millennials want discussed? Any you would add? Let us know in the comments section.
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Minnesota apparently has a recycling "problem" - apparently we don't recycle plastic bottles at the rate the Legislature thinks we should.
So the Legislature is considering a bottle deposit bill - tacking a 10-cent deposit on plastic bottles that can be redeemed when you take them to a recycling center. The recycling centers would be run by a non-profit corp. set up by the statute. The cost of running the system would be about $29 million, according to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, payable by beverage companies who would pass the cost on to the consumer at the rate of one cent a bottle. The MPCA estimates the law would create 1,076 jobs.
Retailers, recyclers and waste collectors are not too excited about it. The dime charge could cut their sales; taking containers out of the trash stream could cut trash collectors' profits, and will there be enough recycling centers to make it convenient for all, even in the rural areas?
Is this the only solution the Legislature can think of to boosting recycling rates? One that costs $29 million to operate?


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April 24, 2014
Former Virginia basketball player and Atlanta Hawks rookie Mike Scott scored a career-high 11 points Monday, as Atlanta beat the visiting Minnesota Timberwolves, 104-96.
Scott was 5-for-8 from the floor and had 7 rebounds and 2 steals in 22 minutes. His previous career-high was 10 points against the Chicago Bulls on Jan. 14.
Atlanta was led by Al Horford, who had a season-high 28 points and 10 rebounds, and Jannero Pargo who added 16 for the Hawks who snapped a two-game slide with the win.
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Published on: Thursday, February 07, 2013
By Brandy L. Simms
The University of Maryland on Wednesday announced the signing of 22 student-athletes in the 2013 recruiting class — including 14 local products.
Maryland's recruiting class ranks as the 30th-best in the nation, according to Rivals.com, and the fifth-best in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
"I'm just very proud of the coaching staff for the work and effort they've put in to getting this done," said Maryland head coach Randy Edsall. "Then I'm also just very happy for all these young men that we've signed because they see what we're doing, what we're building, and they wanted to be a part of something special."
All but eight of the players who put pen to paper on National Signing Day hail from the DMV (D.C., Maryland and Virginia) including six student-athletes with ties to Prince George's County.
Suitland High wide receiver Taivon Jacobs, considered a four-star recruit by ESPN.com, signed with Maryland after giving a verbal pledge to Ohio State last summer. As a senior, Jacobs amassed 1,065 receiving yards and scored 15 touchdowns for the Rams.
For the second straight year, Maryland landed the Gatorade Player of the Year in Washington, D.C., in Friendship Collegiate Academy linebacker Yannick Ngakoue. The Bowie native played in the Under Armour All-America game and was named a first-team Parade All-American.
The Terps also signed Friendship Collegiate's Jermaine Carter, Jr. who hails from Fort Washington. Carter, a 6-foot-2, 220-pound linebacker, registered 90 tackles, three sacks, seven forced fumbles and returned an interception for a touchdown last season.
Meanwhile, Gilman senior and former DeMatha quarterback Shane Cockerille officially became a Terp along with McNamara product Milan Collins and Lanham native Elvis Dennah of Annapolis Area Christian School.
"The DMV area is huge," said Maryland recruiting coordinator John Dunn. "We talk about the conferences, but that is always going to be the recruiting base for us, that's where we will start. I think that is where you build your program, with guys from your own base. It's huge for us. It helps further those relations with the coaches and the people from the area."